The Kiangsu authorities are finding the remnants of the defeated Jarmy at Kiangwan difficult to pacify, Their removal to Kiangwan was of course only an: expedient to set them from dangerous proximity to the Settlement, and they have never since proved at all tractable. The wrecking of the railway line outside Kiangwan station on Friday morning Inst was not expected to be an {isolated affair, and anticipations have been realized by Inter developments. On Friday afternoon, immediately after the line had been repaired, two fully loaded troop trains were got away, but, thereafter the remaining men of the 10th Chekiang Division expressed. their determination not to move or allow any other troops to move until the Kiangsu commander offered acceptable terms. At one time it looked though these men and the Kiang-_ ssu soldiers who remain nominally in control of the situation would break out again into open hostilities, but there has been no actual firing up to the time of writing.
In order effectually to stop all further military traffic on the Woosung line, the Chekiang men on Saturday morning once more out me. by the simple expedient of i. This they did at a point where ie passes close te Hongkew Park, and having dono s0, guards were placed there and. intervals along the line to Kiangwan station. No attempt has been made to repair the damage. it being realized that, unless the dic. hards are got under control and
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